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In a sleepy little town, a mop-haired teenaged nymphet named Sybille arrives to spend her vacation with her aunt. Sybille is struck with the overwhelming sense that both her aunt and the town of Krasnyje Utki have nothing to offer her and are down right dull. Sybille soon changes this reality. She falls in love with a man twenty-six years her senior and infuses the little town with her love potion. But Sybille must pay a price: the son of the man she loves is in love with her, and will stop at nothing to get her. Before the season is through, Sybille owes a young man 100 kisses.
But since he only gets 73, the rest of the story is about the 27 missing kisses ­ and what happens when a secret screening of a pirated Emmanuelle film at the local armaments factory turns the whole town upside down.

His name was Johnny Chicago. He was loved and feared and mad crazy. And then the cops went and fucking killed him. Determined to pay hommage to his dead best friend, Chuck Moreno persuades Johnny's brother Ray to help him honour Johnny's last wish. But as anybody knows, family is trouble, especially when Johnny's wife is against the idea and his daughter Tess has had the gloriously dumb idea to join the cops. The problems just keep piling up for the Troublemakers...

The end of the Bausch/van Werveke trilogy (Troublemaker, Back In Trouble, Trouble No More) includes madness, wild chases and a transatlantic finale: more trouble or Trouble No More?

Tough coal miner Frank Machin (Richard Harris) rooms in the house of the widowed Mrs. Margaret Hammond (Rachel Roberts) and is frustrated by her indifference to his advances: she remains devoted to her dead husband. Frank bulls his way into a lucrative spot on a professional Rugby team and meets several new people. The club scout "Dad" Johnson (William Hartnell, TV's original Dr. Who) dotes on Frank. Club owners Gerald Weaver and Charles Slomer (Alan Badel & Arthur Lowe) consider how best to exploit him. Teammates Maurice Braithwaite and Len Miller (Colin Blakely and Jack Watson) find it difficult to consider a life beyond the playing field and all-night parties. Frank tries his best to win Margaret's affections. She's unimpressed by his new car but slowly allows Frank into her personal life -- which only leads to more unhappiness.

Drafted into the British army, Tom Beddows (Brian Stirner, All Creatures Great and Small) and his fellow soldiers await their mission. Their days are a mix of training and waiting, boredom and fear of the unknown. They wish the war would go away, that they could return to their parents and girlfriends. During a furlough, Tom meets a girl named Janey (Julie Neesam, The Island of Adventure) but knows he has no future with her. Whatever his mission, he feels in his gut that he won't survive. His buddies Jack (David Harries, Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness) and Arthur (Nicholas Ball, Lifeforce) have a similar sense of impending doom. None of the young men know it, but they'll be among the first troops to land in Normandy at the launch of Operation Overlord, the Allied offensive to push the Nazis out of France.

In this exclusive collection of cinematic treasures, Kino on Video pays homage to the lesser-known works of the screen's most inventive comedian. Highlights include home movie footage of Keaton in Paris and on the set of The General, scenes from the never-completed Cinemascope musical Ten Girls Ago, excerpts from the rare TV series Life with Buster Keaton, his first dramatic role (Gogol's The Awakening), two 1930s shorts (Allez-Oop! and Jail Bait), commercials, excerpts from his appearance on TV's This Is Your Life and the newly-restored 1921 short Hard Luck.

Film historian John Bengtson (the author of Silent Echoes) has prepared an interactive tour of locations where Keaton's films were shot. An extensive photo gallery reveals family snapshots, images from Keaton's vaudeville years, fascinating behind-the-scenes stills and more.

Hong Kong: one week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The movie follows six characters whose lives are all connected in one way or another. The day of changes comes when Amaya (played by the world famous, multiple award winning Kaori Momoi) meets a charming Englishman, Paul. Their encounter dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity. Their lives change forever. But one thing remains universal... love.

In the midst of Nazi occupation, theaters still did a brisk business, partly because of the need for escapism, and partly because no one had any heat, but could stay warm in a crowded theater. So they flocked to the theaters, always careful to catch the last metro out of Paris so they could get home before curfew.

The Theatre Montmartre has fallen on hard times. Jewish owner and director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) has fled the country to avoid the concentration camps; in his absence, Steiner's wife Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve, Belle du Jour) struggles to keep the theater running. The theater's future hinges on their new play, Disappearances; as rehearsals progress, the cast deals with the occupation in their own way. Leading man Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu, Cyrano de Bergerac) is peripherally involved with the resistance, while supporting player Nadine rushes from theater work to film work to television work, anything to further her career. But Marion has a secret-Lucas is really hiding out in the theater cellar. From there he listens to rehearsals, passing directorial notes through his wife. As the occupation continues, Marion must overcome obstacle after obstacle, from an influential anti-Semitic theater critic who suspects that Lucas is still in France, her husband's growing sense of isolation, and, most unexpectedly, her growing attraction to her leading man.

Truffaut somehow manages to take a story that, on paper at least, sounds overly melodramatic and turn it into something magnificent. Set during what had to have been an incredibly tense and emotional period in French history, The Last Metro manages to work as a sincerely moving and touching film without ever feeling heavy handed or overdone. While the story, on the surface level at least, is little more than a tale of a simple love triangle, the constant reminders of the Nazi occupation by way of the black outs, the curfew, the persecution of the Jews, the buying of food on the black market, and the very real and physical presence of German troops gives the film a much more somber and reflective tone leaving you wondering how much of it was based on Truffaut's own experiences as a boy growing up during the occupation.↓ Download movie...

The Legend of Suram Fortress is a richly textured, inimitably iconoclastic, startlingly vibrant, and elliptical yet poetic and intrinsically cohesive tale of sacrifice, captivity, and the fickle mutability of fate.
This film is in memory of the Georgian warriors of all times who had given their lives for their country. It is based on an old Georgian legend: Preparing to defend their country from the onslaught of foreign conquerors, people started building a fortress, but each time the wall had reached the roof level, it collapsed. "The wall will hold if the most handsome young man is immured in it," predicted a fortune-teller. And forward stepped a young man who was ready to sacrifice his life for his country. Thanks to that self-sacrifice, the fortress was erected, and nothing and no one could ever destroy it.

Rohmer's stated intention with Tales of the Four Seasons was to "focus on attractive, intelligent, self-absorbed if not entirely self-aware young women who present their dilemmas with clarity and elegance and express their feelings in inspired and witty dialogue."

In this first instalment, philosophy teacher Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre) strikes up a friendship with college student Natacha (Florence Darel), who offers her a place to stay while her own apartment is temporarily occupied. Disapproving of her father’s current partner, Natacha tries to manoeuvre him and Jeanne into a relationship. The development of well-rounded characters is everything here as Rohmer allows events to unfold at their own pace.